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  • The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon

    Toward a Political History of Madness

    by Laure Murat ...
    Translated by Deke Dusinberre ...
    The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial—and the next day, the director of a Paris hospital for the insane admitted fourteen men who claimed to be Napoleon. The challenge, meanwhile, is the claim by great French ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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  • A Most Dangerous Method

    The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein

    by John Kerr ...
    “Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant.” —NewsdayNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, Direcetd by Dabid Cronenbertg and STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSELIn 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were ... Read more

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  • Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)

    A History of Women Healers

    by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ...
    Series series Contemporary Classics
    Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.First published by the Feminist Press in ... Read more

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  • Gracefully Insane

    The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

    by Alex Beam ...
    Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as ... Read more

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  • Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods

    by David Lewis-Williams, David Pearce ...
    An exploration of how brain structure and cultural content interacted in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago to produce unique life patterns and belief systems.What do the headless figures found in the famous paintings at Catalhoyuk in Turkey have in common with the monumental tombs at Newgrange and Knowth in Ireland? How can the concepts of "birth," "death," and "wild" cast light on the ... Read more

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  • Freudian Slips

    All the Psychology You Need to Know

    by Joel Levy ...
    Freudian Slips presents the essential facts and findings of the fascinating subject of psychology in an accessible and enjoyable way, leaving no slip or phallic symbol unexamined.From psychoanalysis to behaviour therapy, via the subconscious and the unconscious, the book charts a path through the subject's controversial history, and encounters the work of all the big names in the field, such as ... Read more

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  • Mental

    Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind

    by Jaime Lowe ...
    A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder.It began in Los Angeles in 1993, when Jaime Lowe was just sixteen. She stopped sleeping and eating, and began to hallucinate—demonically cackling Muppets, faces lurking in windows, Michael Jackson delivering ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Orwell's Warning: The Greatest Amerikan Paradox

    by Erik Blaire ...
    How did Francisco Pizarro use the secret trick of Christopher Columbus to conquer the mightiest empire of South America in one evening, with a single boat load of men, with almost no resistance? And what does this have to do with YOU?In his classic, 1984, George Orwell selected certain features of his society as a basic skeleton, then fleshed political fiction over the bones. Many parallels ... Read more

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  • The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank

    Inside Psychoanalysis

    Edited by E. James Lieberman, MD, Robert Kramer, PhD ...
    Sigmund Freud’s relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics; Rank was the managing director of Freud’s publishing house; and after several years helping Freud update his masterpiece, The Interpretation of ... Read more

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  • Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream

    by Robert W. Rieber, Robert J. Kelly ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual as well as the societal level. Arising at the same time as Freud’s influential ideas, cinema has ... Read more

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  • Why We Do the Things We Do

    Psychology in a Nutshell

    by Joel Levy ...
    Can you really tell a criminal by the bumps on his head? What does a memory look like? Can a machine think? Why are some people shy? Is it better not to feel so much?These are some of the many questions that have troubled the minds of some of the greatest thinkers in human civilization and are discussed in this comprehensive yet accessible introduction to psychology.The complex workings of the ... Read more

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  • Constructions and the Analytic Field

    History, Scenes and Destiny

    by Domenico Chianese ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a historical reconstruction?In seeking to answer this question, Domenico Chianese examines Freud's writing, beginning with 'Constructions in Analysis' and ending in 'Moses and Monotheism', as well as the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD